Pick N Pay Stores - Bitcoin

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Hi All,

Pick N Pay stores in South Africa have recently announced that they support Bitcoin as a payment method across their entire network.

There are currently 436 Pick N Pay elements according to this overpass query, some of which have already had the Bitcoin tags manually added.

I am part of the organised editing community BTCMap.org and would like to discuss an automated edit where we add the appropriate Bitcoin tags to the Pick N Pay stores.

Is this something the local SA community would like to work on with me?

Many thanks,

Nathan

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What would the proposed tags be?

payment:lightning=yes ?

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Hi @Firefishy,

The proposed tags are:

currency:XBT=yes
payment:lightning=yes
payment:lightning_contactless=no
payment:onchain=no
check_date:currency:XBT=YYY-MM-DD

This is in accordance with Bitcoin OSM Wiki Page.

Cheers,

Nathan

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Looks like you’ve been busy! :muscle:

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Hey @Firefishy - are you happy that we progress and automatically tag the reminder of the sites or do we need to build more concensus?

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The tags look ok to me, except for maybe the check_date:currency:XBT. There are some franchised Pick n Pay stores which may have different payment options.

Additional consensus would be ideal, but I personally don’t mind if you proceed.

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OK, no rush.

I’ll check with the payment provider what the situation is regarding franchises and report back.

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Confirmation from payment provider that franchises are included.

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OK, we will proceed unless there are any objections within the next 48 hrs.

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@Firefishy - Do you want to proceed with the update?

We would prefer that this is done by in-country users.

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Go for it.

I have been trying to complete the coverage of Pick n Pay stores, but likely at least a few weeks off, but that doesn’t need to hold back the BTC updates.

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Hey @Firefishy - hope all is well!

I would like to bump all of the `check_date:currency:XBT tags for the Pick N Pay stores having verified with the payment provider that they all still do accept Bitcoin.

We use the survey:date and check_date as a data quality measure and down rank communities that have stale date. South Africa is getting down-ranked significantly right now given the amount of PnP stores!

Are you happy for us to proceed with this - we would want to do it as an automated edit from out BTC Map OSM account, or better still have local moderators make the change.

How should we proceed?

In other news, I will be presenting BTC Map at the Adopting Bitcoin conference in Cape Town in a few weeks. Would be great if you were able to attend!

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Sure, sounds ok to me.

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OK, I will progress with an automated edit later this week unless I hear of any concerns in this thread from the local community.

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I also see there are a number of relations that got tagged erroneously during the original update.

I will manually go through these to remove them. e.g. a barbers within a Pick N Pay Hyperstore.

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Hi @nathan_day and @Firefishy. I represent MoneyBadger, we are the Crypto PSP enabling Lightning payments at the till for PnP.

I confirm that all South African Pick n Pays currently accept Lightning payments (not on-chain). This includes all franchise stores, all PnP express shops, PnP clothing stores and any other PnP stores like hypermarkets and outdoor shops.

Should you find a PnP that does not have the “Contactless QR” payment option, please contact MoneyBadger support via our website. More info: How to pay @ PnP — MoneyBadger

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